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John J. Custer / The Atlantic Willed Helplessness Is the American Condition
To wrap your mind around the reality of long COVID and its randomness is terrifying.
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Jonno Rattman Unlocking the Mysteries of Long COVID
A growing number of clinicians are on an urgent quest to find treatments for a frighteningly pervasive problem. They’ve had surprising early success.
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Peter Van Agtmael / Magnum Grappling With a Terrible Milestone: One Hundred Thousand Dead
To mourn in a moment of collective trauma is to experience not one but multiple layers of loss.
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Moises Saman / Magnum Photos Americans Have to Accept Uncertainty
As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be “in uncertainty.” But American culture—and American medicine within it—largely strives to downplay this fact.
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Cyndi Monaghan / Getty The Shift Americans Must Make to Fight the Coronavirus
We are stubbornly hung up on a damaging idea of self-reliance.
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Ricky Kresslein / Getty Lyme Disease Is Baffling, Even to Experts
But new insights are at last accumulating.
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Mark Blinch / Reuters What Magazines Can’t Do in the Age of #MeToo
By publishing Jian Ghomeshi, Ian Buruma revealed that he didn’t understand a major issue of our time.
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Jules Julien Turning Pain Into Art
How the poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell became each other’s tragic muses
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Cristiana Couceiro; Express / Getty; Kazuhiro Nogi / … Why Extreme Gymnastics Will Dominate the Rio Olympics
Has athleticism eclipsed aesthetic spirit? Dvora Meyers’s book traces the evolution of the sport.
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Kevin Van Aelst Doctors Tell All—and It’s Bad
A crop of books by disillusioned physicians reveals a corrosive doctor-patient relationship at the heart of our health-care crisis.
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Clay Rodery Watching American Movies in Paris
The illuminations of familiar culture in a foreign setting
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AP Seamus Heaney's Plainspoken Power
Ireland's late Nobel Prize winner transformed my ideas of what it can mean to be a poet.
